Definitions for breeches

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breeches breech·es

Spelling: [brich-iz, bree-chiz]

IPA: /ˈbrɪtʃ ɪz, ˈbri tʃɪz/

Breeches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in breeches (bceeehrs).

Definitions for breeches

noun

1. Also called knee breeches. knee-length trousers, often having ornamental buckles or elaborate decoration at or near the bottoms, commonly worn by men and boys in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.
2. riding breeches.
3. Informal. trousers.
4. the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
5. the hinder or lower part of anything.
6. Ordnance. the rear part of the bore of a gun, especially the opening and associated mechanism that permits insertion of a projectile.
7. Machinery. the end of a block or pulley farthest from the supporting hook or eye.
8. Nautical. the outside angle of a knee in the frame of a ship.

Idioms

1. too big for one's breeches, asserting oneself beyond one's authority or ability.

verb (used with object)

1. Ordnance. to fit or furnish (a gun) with a breech.
2. to clothe with breeches.

Origin of breeches

1125-75; Middle English, plural of breech

Examples for breeches

I grabbed for Jud, and my fingers caught the knee of his breeches.

Then came the ominous clicking of the breeches as cartridges were thrust home.

Pierre, utterly bewildered, could find neither his breeches nor his cassock.

She turned to Rotherby, who stood there in shirt and breeches and shoeless, as he had fought.

Femoralia magistri—the breeches of the master, or the masters breeches.

The man hath a straight sword within he leg of his breeches.

It is an excrescence, not an essential garment like the shirt and breeches.

Eric had worn his breeches a long while before he put them on for the first time.

His lordship threw off his dressing-gown and stood forth in shirt and breeches.

I'll get a pair of ridin' breeches an' boots for you by tomorrow.